Russian city dumps raw sewage into Arctic sea

SIKU CIRCUMPOLAR NEWS SERVICE

More than 200,000 tons of waste water are discharged into the Kola Bay in Murmansk every year. The waste is discharged directly into the water.

Murmansk, a city of nearly 400,000 has no waste water treatment plant.

This year the region’s authorities budgeted four million rubles to build a waste treatment facility, but this won’t be enough to complete the new plant’s construction.